Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire District said at this point, most of the fire had gone out. A water-based mitigation system did not work as designed, Vistra's senior director of community affairs Brad Watson said at the conference. Earlier in the day, a Monterey Sheriff official had said there were no active fire suppression efforts going on, "as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn."

Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      But you did understand the “burn down the house” part, right? Because that’s all I really need from you.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          Uh huh. But here, you’re burning down the house because it has a leaky faucet.

          Authoritarian bullshit is a completely unreasonable response to this problem.

          • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPEnglish
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            2 hours ago

            A little bit of authoritarianism is what we need now to mitigate climate change and avoid the much worse kind of authoritarianism we will be in for as climate change gets worse. There’s no hippy la-la conscious capitalism way out of this situation.